Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-11
Christians Ofteatimes Live in Dread
If Death--Parting From Friends
the Only Sting,
,.ssous Why We Should not Fear the
{ struggle at the Moment the
Soul and BOdy Part.
oh,souIes of a Good Man Should be
10 90 Rcioicing-So weeping Be
,,rs. a soul ls Taken Eome.
.grto The Gazette

=. .7e Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D.,
[...o-,epsnds his first Sabbath away from
& 47ok the present season, at his sum
= zone. HIS subject for to-day was;
- Dungeon to Palace" and his
aTae time OF my departure is at
,-+ ~ Timothy v. 8.
~. wsv out Of this world IS so blocked
~,,a coffin and hearse, and under
80 srste ard serew-driver, that tie
r--.rgr can hardly think as ne ought OF
-. most cheerful passage IN all his his
~ We Aa1g black instead Of white
~-. se 7.scs waere the good man gets
victory. Tc stand weeping over
-.,- q chains watch the freed soul
ras shaken of, and NC say: "Poor man!
NJ q p.ty +. was he had TO come to
- come 20 what? BY the time the
- have assembled 81 the 0bsequies,
4 ~. man has been three days 80 happy
30 all the 10Y OF eGrth accumulated
----.4 I'd. yre.cledless beside il, and he
! Nm. better weep over you because you
-sr. 20 s.sT, than you weep over him be-
-srs. he mas 10 20. II is fortunate
~. ma, g good man does not have TO
Ts.-t5 See
MS own CBsEQUIEs,
.-.g would ts 50 disCOrdant with his
,-. .,.. r;euCe. II the IsraGIites should
...s to Egypt and mourn over the
-..- 5-.r- they once left, they would not
a.. .-v more silly than that Christian who
- +---esa heaven and come down
ami mourn because ne had TO leave this
wa- our ideas Of the Christians
1astr are morbid and sickiY. We look
mon f AZ a dark hole in which man
s.r--,as when his breath gives out. This
wrg.a subject IS 0dOrJus with yarnish
7-l tt-i-tuCta1ts, instead Of being sweet
with ID gnole-te. Paul, II my text, takes
.ls. -rea. c.o- OF d WORD 'otath adu
.--0E> ..amsYl ana speaks OF MS ',ae-
a--N-e''-a beautiful, 9IIg1t, suggestive
Ta-.5 descriptive OF every CATlsLIan's re-
ease
N-w departure Lupllss staLgInS
place AID f.sce q uestlhaOiOh' "LeA
az point. Il vas scene OF great phy-
s.es. distress. II was me lu+Il&hUn, thG
gwr1 dungeon OF llC Manerllnt PRISON
Ilc Top dungeon was D2Q enough
having ne means ~ -l9Iess OF tsIe's puV
.1-. --l al opening 10 lle top' 14IoUS!
.-1 ,G1 prisoner was lowered, ELu
.lraaE1 mar CSme al the lOOo ana 2lF
5LG ll--. received. II was Lerf-Dle
place, ina. upper dungeon; ouL the IGl-
..a1uu was the lover dungeon, ana taat
s-..- more W-etCleC1 the only light
through Tie root, ana that
roof the floor Of Tie upper dungeon: mat
was rs1-'s las. earthly residence. IL was
dungeon Just SIX Iees al1 -aI alSA.
/. "se aolelu- place. II had the cAlll OF
log centuries % dampness 1t was h.1ny
VIII me .oag lEcarceTGLonS OF
MISERABLE wRETCHEs.
l. r- there thai Paul spent his last days
Oh earth, and it IS there that see him to- /
1sv, il sae fearful. dungeon, shiverinE, /
I'D with the cold, woiting for that old
lr-.Cga- which he had sent for up to
I.oas, and waicl they had not yet sent
down. notwithstanding he mad written for
II some shl-iul surgeon should 60 into |
.ls. dungeon where Paul is inCsrCerated, I
we wig3. Ind ont what Gre the prospects
Of IaG.'s living through the rough i'm /
--ls.uulut. p the first place, he Is an .
old man, only cwO years snort or seventy. |
A. that very time when he most needs the /
warmth and the sunlight and the fresh +.
81, .e is smut on. from the sun. What I
a.e t.asg scars on his ankles? Why those /
"e-. gotten When be was fast, his
tel .ls stocks. Every time he
-r~r -r. l.-, a., I-z orl,lag
s.'.,e " hat are those scars on his
.',- f91 Aao" ne Was whipped i've
-.-.. eagA 'lme geI'ing thirty -nihe
2--J,-s3l- -Undted ano ninety--Ve
--.,-s on Inc back count them: ,
me Jews with roos
=. sA-"o9o, tacA one OF the
--1 -aharet and nlnetF-uIe strokes
-..'--A- s-s blood Look al Paul's lace
o> ~ MS arms. mere dlo ne get
--s. cruises. tllnh It WIS Wien ne
-S-tAG ashore AMIDST the shiYefea
..-.lr1~ 9i lle a1}p|recA. ] see gash
Z 2 a.-.s SIDE. Where did ne get thGt'
A-e GOT That IN the tussel with
---.-.'@5 men, Tor ne mad been IN peru OF
s.>' ana ne Lac money OF MS own
". '.aS mechanic as well as an apostle,
~. --.1A Inc tents ne maze were as
~. -s --s sermons
--- ---s Is Wa2n-ss ABOUT faulS LOOKS.
" ~, ,laAeS J1sl: think part 81 that
- rom me iec. mai ne was for TWEEN
= ----- hours a 0 plank n the Meolter-
.o-ea- 9es' suffering terribly, oeIore ne
l11 --'--.d q. lor ne says positively ~
- -.--. aAu gay IN Inc deep III;